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Information & Research Literacy - A self-guided Program

This is currently a work in progress (summer 2025) to provide the HKUST community with self-drected learning on many aspects of information and research literacy

Science Databases

ProQuest 

Is a web-based service which provides users with seamless access to a large collection of citations and full-text/images of periodicals, magazines and newspapers in medical research, telecommunications and computer science, applied and general sciences, business, humanities and social sciences. 

PubMed.gov

Contains more than 30 million citations and abstracts of biomedical literature. It does not include full-text journal articles; however, links to the full text are often present when available from other sources, such as the publisher's website or PubMed Central (PMC).

Web of Science

Covers 7,100 international science and engineering journals. SSCI covers 2,100 social science and business journals worldwide. Both databases can be searched by keyword, author, source, author's affiliation, cited author, cited work and cited year. Search Guide.

Scopus

Provides bibliographic information and abstracts to articles in 12,600 academic journals, 750 conference proceedings, and 600 trade publications from over 4,000 international publishers. Subject coverage includes science, engineering, medicine, and social sciences. The database also contains the references cited in those articles published from 1996-. Search Guide.

Abstracts/Full Text of Doctoral Dissertations and Master's Theses

HKUST Electronic Theses provides abstracts and full-text of HKUST doctoral dissertations and master's theses.

ProQuest dissertations & theses global: the sciences and engineering collection This database includes millions of searchable citations to dissertation and theses from thousands of universities around the world since 1861. Where available, it also provides 24-page previews of dissertations and theses published since 1637. Users can place online orders using their own credit cards. Full-text download in PDF format is restricted to most of the dissertations published since 1997 and HKUST PhD dissertations.Search Guide

Full Text of Patents

中华人民共和国国家知识产权局专利数据库 provides abstracts and full-text of Chinese patents.

Esp@cenet is maintained by the European Patent Office. It provides abstracts and full-text of patents worldwide.

USPTO Web Patent Databases are maintained by the US Patent and Trademark Office. The databases provide abstracts and full-text of US patents.

Handbooks

Current Protocols in Molecular Biology is an authoritative manual used in laboratories worldwide for effective, reliable methods in molecular biology research. It includes chapters on protein analysis, DNA sequencing, preparation of DNA and RNA, in situ hybridization and immunohistochemistry.

Current Protocols in Nucleic Acid Chemistry provides step-by-step laboratory procedures for the synthesis, modification, purification, analysis, and utilization of nucleic acids. It includes everything from the basic fundamentals of lab work to the most cutting-edge methods. All protocols have been contributed by leading investigators in the field

Knovel provides the full-text of thousands of handbooks across the engineering and science subjects. It's "Data Search" feature allows users to search for science and engineering data directly.

Dictionaries and Encyclopedias

A dictionary of biology
(E-Resources QH302.5 .D54 2019eb)
A dictionary of ecology
(E-Resources QH540.4 .C66 2015)
A dictionary of zoology
(E-Resources  2020)
Encyclopedic dictionary of genetics, genomics, and proteomics
(E-resources 2003)
Wiley encyclopedia of biomedical engineering
(E-resources R856.A3 .W55 2006)
The encyclopedia of cancer
(E-Resources 2020)
Encyclopedia of genetics
(E-Resources QH427 .E53 2004)
Encyclopedia of genetics, genomics, proteomics and informatics
(E-Resources 2008)
eLS
(E-Resources 2009)
Encyclopedic reference of genomics and proteomics in molecular medicine
(E-Resources 2006)
Encyclopedia of underwater life: : aquatic invertebrates and fishes
(E-Resources 2005)
McGraw-Hill dictionary of bioscience
(E-Resources 2003)
Oxford dictionary of biochemistry and molecular biology
(E-Resources QP512 .O94 2006)
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